� ���, 17.03.2002, � 00:41, Byron Poland �������: [...] > > I now have 3 external removable storage devices, 1 acomdata 80 gig > firewire drive (dev1), 1 firewire enclosure with a 30gig drive in it > (dev2), and 1 usb smartmedia card reader (dev3). I have all 3 working > fine with the latest cooker + some firewire cvs drivers (so the acomdata > drive gets recognized). [...] > how do I set up fstab and I guess devfs so that no mater how many > devices I have plugged in, and no matter what order they were plugged > in, all I have to do is type: >
You probably can't. It is impossible with USB for sure where there is no fixed ID of devices to my best knowledge. So first device plugged in gets next free number etc. I presume the same is with firewire. There is (for all I can tell) no fixed addresses on the firewire bus like on USB. Is it correct? That is what volume manager is for. Setup LVM, give every device own name (volume) and then it does not under which _physical_ names they are accessed because LVM scans all available devices to find volume names. Of course you need to manually run vgscan after plugging in your device. There is no automatic way to do it currently. -andrej
